Reading Comprehension Test
Reading Comprehension Test
Line 20 Intoxication literally means to poison by taking a toxic substance into your body.
Any substance that intoxicates causes changes in the body and the mind. It can create
addiction or dependence, causing a person to want to take that drug even if it harms him or
her.
The other thing to know is that burning dried leaves and buds and inhaling the smoke
into your lungs is definitely not natural and like smoking cigarettes, can be harmful to your
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body.
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Pluto is about two-thirds the diameter of Earth's moon and probably has a rocky core
surrounded by a mantle of water ice. More exotic ices like methane and nitrogen frost coat
its surface. Owing to its size and lower density, Pluto's mass is about one-sixth that of
Earth's moon. Pluto is more massive than Ceres -- the dwarf planet that resides in the
Line 10 asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- by a factor of 14.
Pluto's 248-year-long elliptical orbit can take it as far as 49.3 astronomical units (AU)
from the sun. (One AU is the mean distance between Earth and the sun: about 93 million
miles or 150 million kilometers.) From 1979 to 1999, Pluto was actually closer to the sun
than Neptune, and in 1989, Pluto came to within 29.8 AU of the sun, providing rare
opportunities to study this small, cold, distant world.
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Since its orbit is so elliptical, when Pluto is close to the sun, its surface ices
sublimate, changing directly from solid to a gas, and rise and temporarily form a thin
atmosphere. Pluto's low gravity (about six percent of Earth's) causes the atmosphere to be
much more extended in altitude than our planet's atmosphere. Pluto becomes much colder
Line 20 during the part of each orbit when it is traveling far away from the sun. During this time, the
bulk of the planet's atmosphere is thought to freeze and fall as snow to the surface.
Pluto has a very large moon that is almost half its size named Charon, which was
discovered in 1978. This moon is so big that Pluto and Charon are sometimes referred to as
a double dwarf planet system. The distance between them is 12,200 miles (19,640
kilometers).
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